Long-winded way of saying "it sucked."

A beast to organize and it will be even better next year; couch critics be damned, you actually made something.

I just read the article josh wrote about the "weed the People" event, and the only thing he got right was that it was hot and poorly organized. I was there at 130pm and the only people that got in "a.s.a.p." were people with v.i.p. passes. THERE WAS NO "CELEBRATION"!!! by ANYONE!. It was pure and simple a money making endeavour. To say it was a shit show is an INSULT to shit shows! Fuck you! josh.

During the Summer, back in the late '60s - early -70s, there used to be free rock concerts in Washington and Mt Tabor Parks every weekend. Everybody smoked out and got off on the local bands. We really weren't looking for the rules.

I wish I could have been there, I've waited for this law to pass for 25 years. Good to take some lessons from the event and learn. Don't let the haters get you down. You can't control the weather. If it's so easy to put together a free weed giveaway I welcome anyone to organize and put one on. Thank you, to you, the volunteers, and growers!

I can't wait until my kids go to this event when they are grown and it is all nice and streamlined. Then I can say I remember the first Cannabis legalization celebration....we had to stand in line for hours and people were passing out and we walked seven miles through Portland to get there with no shoes too. The older I get the more I enjoy telling exaggerated stories of how difficult things were back in the day. This event definitely makes that list.

When Orygun was the first state in the country to decriminalize grass, it was not the result of lobbying, canvasing, voting, or protesting. It was a spontaneous mass movement of people exercising their freedom to the extent that the pigs were impotent to stop it, so politicians tried to make it look as if they were being benevolent, and THAT'S the WAY we LIKED it! Problems started when everybody started doing coke and going to discos until 4am, losing sleep, then jobs, then marriages. After that, nobody even smoked weed in public anymore, so Bill Clinton re-criminalized it. Use it or lose it.

After many failed events its time to get it right. Where information is gladly given, enlightening conversation had, and truly free samples are given. Everyone's neighbors moms looking to get in on the familys secret grow methods, medibles recipes, and soil tips. Simply network These people together and throw one hell of a celebration. Can it really be done before capitalization takes hold Oct. 1st? Oregon waits.